Aerial vessel.



T. E. R. PHILLIPS. AERIAL VESSEL, APPLICATION FILED NOV 12, 1910.

Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

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AERIALVESSEL. v APPLICATION I'ILED NOV. 12, 1910.

1,043,538, 1 Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

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' AERIAL VESSEL.

APPLICATION FILED 110v.12, 1910.

11,,O48 538, Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

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T. E. R. PHILLIPS.

AERIAL VESSEL.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 12, 1910.

-THOMAS ERNEST RAYD'IOND PHILLIPS. OF LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND.

AERIAL VESSEL.

tiiljlfifl Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

Application filed. November 12,1910. Serial No. 592.057.

le it known that l. Tnonas l inxns'r lhrnoxn iuulmrs, a subject of the King of England. re iding at 1.") Xicauder road. fiction larlt. liirerpool. in the county of Lancaster, England. have invented Improvements in Aerial Vessels, oil which the t'ollmving is a specification.

Til h invention has reference to the controlling of aerial aid other vessels, and equivalently operated apparatus. b wave tiansniittcd electricity, but it will he primaril described as applied it. or used in connection with. the controlling of the increment or action of aerial vessels \vliether ot' the lighter than air type, or heavier than air type. in connection with which it is Very applicable; it being understood at the same time that it may be also applied to apparatus or niaehincr v which can he equivalently controlled and operated from a distance by wave transmitted electricity.

in the Following description. the improvements under this invention are comprised, such description being made in connection with the controlling of an aerial vessel or apparatus.

in connection with the aerial vessel, there are employed a motor and propellers which are mounted on a loosely supported frame capable of swinging in or near the horizontal plane. and also slightly tilting 'or moving in relation to the vertical plane from its point of support; and the engines or electric motorsare carried on this frame, and are arranged. say. one on either side of the ertical plane at the vessel. and adapted to he put in action separately or together. ll'hen actuated separately in one direction. t iis: frame is caused to swing thereby about i snp 'iort. and s produce an oblique propelling ctl'e t. tending to turn the vessel around: while when this motor put out; of action. and the other put in motion. the opposite propelling and turning ettect is obtained. while in some cases. if desired, it may be dcrised so that one will be revolved in one direction. and the other in the other direction. Further. in another part of the apparatus. that is. in the frame ot' the vessel. there may he prt'u'ided an electric motor. or an electrically controlled motor. operating; a pcrieiler h rizontally, which. when worked on either to ii the vc it can i fall as desired.

e or other direction, tends l or depress it. so that These motors or their controlling mechanism will be operated by electrical accumulators or batteries. held or carried in a suitable part of the vessel. Th actions of these motors are governed by wave actuated electrical appliances on the vessel. These will comprise receiver bars or the like connected with terminals. which have in connection with them a coherer which is decohered by a suitable eleetro-inagnet. in connection with the circuit and one of the cohercr terminals, there will be a battery and a relay, and these are so arranged that when a wave is transmitted from the transmitting instrument, such as is produced by a suitable oscillator, the relay through the coherer will be actuatcd, and this will close a local circuit connected with an electro-inagnet which operates a current controller for governing the various circuits of the motors and other appliances on the vessel. This circuit opening and closing device will have a plurality of sets of tappets or projecting contacts which operate in connection with other contact-s constituting the terminals of the circuits of the different motors. and these several sets of contacts will be mounted on a barrel circularly and longitudinally, the terminals referred to being arranged alone say either side of the barrel. Then if this barrel be rotated from one position to an0t-her,-it Will be putin and out certain circuits; the various pins or contacts on the barrel being electrically connected up. and so arranged, that this can take place. and that the currents can lee-transmitted in one or other direction, so as to drive the motors in one direction or the other. and to put out certain of the motors. and put; in action another or others. or other appliances. The actuating oi this cylinder may be effected by a lever actuated by the electro-magnet referred to. which is energized by the relay local circuit when the coherer is in action; and this magnet. attcr thus actuating; the le-' ver and the barrel or cylinder, will move a part into contact with thepart connected with a coherer or decohering electro-magnet, so that when the circuit of this decolicring magnet is thus closed. the electromagnet' actuatcs a hammer which strikes the cohcrer. so that the primary circuit. is then opened. Thus b v-the actuation of the electrical Wave transmitter. the rotary controller of the various circuits connected with the. motors or other electromagnetic devices wave actions causesithe metallic particles contained in thefcoherer, to so" arrange themselves as to complete-the coherer circuit, and oldest the actuation}; of ,the relay, as above stated. The coherer circuitis broken by disturbing the particles within the coherer; and such disturbing of these particles is effected by means ot' the hammer 33, which is controlled by the decohering magnet 34:, connected with the main local battery and this is brought into circuit when the magnet 27 (controlling thelever which actu ates the drum 19) is energized through the contacts 35. Fig. 5 also illustrates the various electrical circuits between the motors of the dii'ferent propellers, the electrical seleclers; while 11 designates the motors of the propelling and steering propellers; and these several m tt-cits are connected with the hetore inentioiied'fcontact arms 22 ot" the electrical selector switch; and, as the drum 19 is rotated by the lever 26, pawl 20, and ratchet wheel 24;: the pins 21 of the drum makecontact withthe contact arms 22, and

thus complete,- in a predetermined order,

the circuits of, the various motors.

if desired. number of lamps 12 may be employed in connection with-the circuits, and according to the manner in .which these lightitp, so will it be ascertained what "011: cuits are completed, and'what'motors and propellers are in use If reference is made to Fig. 5 it will be seen that the manner of controlling these several motors is diagrammatically illustrated. In the, arrangement shown; the drum 19 is divided up into four parts, the parts a, and I) being reserved for controlling the motors on the loosely suspended frame 16, which serves the purpose or propelling and steering the machine; 0 for controlling the motors which serve to raise and lower the machine; and (i for lighting upthe several signal lamps. I

The devices for transmitting the electrical or Hertzian wave currents to the machine may be of any lmown forms; although that type of apparatus provided with long thin wave transmitting rods or arms is preferred. In use, the, electrical wave actions e-are transmitted from the transmitting apparatus to the coherer on the aerial machine; and on each wave transmission, the coherer is energized and its circuit completed; whereupon the relay switch is actuated and the main local. circuit is closed, and the magnet, which serves to actuate the drum moving lever, is energized and eitects a predetermined and partial rotation of the selector drum; while following the energizing ot the magnet, which moves the actuating lever of the selector drum, the decohering magnet is ener ized, and the hammer disturbs the parling motor 11, is completed.

through the field of the motor )Ilfirlllfl from the positive side of the local battery 15 to the field, and thence to the middle contact shown on the lower portion of the part a. This middle contact is connected to a con tact on the opposite side of the drum 19. and passes thence t'o'the negative side of the battery. thus the circuit of such propelln like man- ,ner it will be seen that the other motors 10 and 11 are connected up according to the switch is actuated by the completion of the coherer circuit. This coherer circuit is shown in ig. 5, and includes the local battery 30 of small power. and the relay switch 2S and the coherer 29. Then the coherer circuit is closed by a Hertzian wave currentreceived by the arms 32, the relay switch 28 isactuated and closes the switch 31; the closing of this switch 31 efiects the operation of the electro-magnet- 27, which controls the operation of the drum 19. The circuit closed by the switch 31 comprises the leads from such switch 31 to the coils of the magnet- 27, and the leads pass thence to the battery 15, the opposite end of this battery be ing connected direct to the. switch 31 by the leads as shown. i hen the coils of the net 27 are energized, the switch 35 is closed? and thus this switch 35 is closed at the same time as the switch 31, and the switch 35 enables the decohering magnet to be brought into circuit also, the circuit of this decoherv ing magnet 34 extending fronrthe coils of such magnet to the negative side of the battery 15 and from the positive side of such battery to the coil of the magnet 27, through the switch 35 to the make and break contact of the magnet 34. 1

When it is desired to alter the course of the'machine, that is, cause it to move to the lett'br right, the motors on these sides are brought into operation, and those on the opposite'sides reversed if desired. This has the effect to move the loosely suspended frame relatively to the frame 8 of the machine and to pull it by means of the connections 17 in :i which the nnzclnne iluveling. loosely suspended frame the IDZlClllIlB can be Caused to turn in a smaller space than iii the frame was fixed: although it will be 0l.

vious that the employment of :i loosely susf pended freine 1S not essential but is ad vanl'ngeous.

The tray (leviee l-l e eleeironmgnei 16, and serves io illiislrule :1 means wherein articles rain be eerrieil, and may he dropped when Lie machine is at ":2 height the dropping hein under the central of a person any other point ehine.

Although onl one form of means is di at El LllSlHiIC-Q i'roin the 1nasrrilieil ulmve fer earning (he invention into j zit ennui (lisinnees iroin the \"Oli-lCfll. plane. \vlnrh passes lhrough. the median longitudi- (lit-r1. ii will be obvious i'lnu ihese means can he considerably Varied Without depart ing from the nature of ihe imieniion, which consists in providing a machine with power driven mechanism for.

Wardly or rezirwarclly--sieering, and. re'ising and lowering a. inachiiuz or vessel, the power mechanism of Which is under the con ire] of a eoherer, and an electrical selector switcln so arranged in connection with one,. suitable local sources I or more circuits and direction, cliil erent in that in i By this i 5 man were currents transmitted thereto from 1S conirolleii or an f stationed on the ground or m" j i 1'11121 upon an axm WlHCli passes ihrouglii he vertleiii plane prejgel in for of eleci'rieiiy. as to be brought into and out of operaiiien by means of eleeirmal or Hertn distance.

hatis claimed is in an aerial vessel, :i main frame, a supplementary frame pivotally and loosely connected with the main frinne and hanging peiufhini therefrom, ilie frames being so connected ihni the snpplenieni:ii'y frame remains in n veriiml pufillifill irrespective of v the inrlinziiion of The main frame with rewhen iii; :1 horizontal in any direction, the

snpplenienhiry frnine being arranged in of the median longitudinal dimension of ilie main frame, propellers carllQ-Il by (he sup lenieniziry frame and loeaierl nal dimension of the main frame, and means ior oper-iting the propellers.

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